Software Engineer I, Twitch Chat

Twitch • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

On our team you’ll be primarily working to improve our Application Performance, making our mobile experiences faster. We also own and support Twitch Chat, you’ll be working with large-scale services and partnering with other teams at Twitch regularly. This position is primarily focused on frontend development (React) but is expected to be fullstack, with some responsibilities around supporting and maintaining backend systems.

Requirements

• 1+ Years experience developing software in a professional environment
• Prior experience building consumer-facing products at scale
• Proficient coding skills in modern languages and frameworks such as React, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C etc
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure
• Experience with languages/frameworks we use at Twitch: React, Typescript, Golang
• Experience with mobile development (although, this is not a mobile development role)
• Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions
• Familiarity with Twitch, gaming, and/or streaming on Twitch

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate interactive experiences
• Investigate, instrument and solve performance problems
• Build distributed applications at scale
• Collaborate with both your team and related teams - fostering shared understanding of how to solve common problems and deliver solutions
• Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level